Looking at the choices you’ve made over the course of your career, you do seem to be motivated by a willingness to try the new and the unexpected. Is that about wanting to confound the expectations of the viewer, or more of a personal creative restlessness?
It’s really just what comes up that affects me. Just like Juniper, Dune began with Denis Villeneuve wanting to meet with me. I knew all about Dune, because way back when, I was being considered for Dune by Alejandro Jodorowsky, and my husband at the time, Jean-Michel Jarre, was wanting to do the music, so we were all talking about that for quite a while. And Dune was this very popular, cult book in the 1970s, so that started then, and then David Lynch did his, but I wasn’t in that. When Denis wanted to meet me, I just thought, this is lovely! Obviously now I won’t be playing Lady Jessica, though. [Laughs.] But here we are, all these years later, putting a spin on this kind of film that hadn’t been done—they are very big films, but they have a real beauty and vision and an intimate touch. It all just made sense to work on that.
With a film like Juniper, it must be nice to be at a stage in your career where you know just by attaching your name to a project, however small it might be, people will watch it. Is it rewarding for you to be able to support emerging filmmakers in that way?
Very much so. It’s just great to be able to do that. Some of the directors I’m working with now are the same age as my son, and they only seem to get younger! Someone else I’m currently working with is in his 30s. It’s a fantastic way to revisit your youth and to keep young as well, obviously: I think we only feel we’re growing older when we get out of contact with young people, because we no longer have them around us and we can’t really do things that the young people are doing. So in my profession, you naturally just stay young. It helps them, and it helps me, so it’s a win-win situation. And these days, women are much more considered for roles than they were when you start getting older, and younger people are interested in how women grow older, and they want to write roles for them. There’s so much more going on around that subject.
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